Prior to Stanford
- 2024 graduate of Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, Calif.
- Helped lead his team to a pair of league titles (2021-22)
- Area Codes Underclass Selection (2022)
- States Play MLB Develops Westside Team (2022)
- MLB PDP Pipeline Winter Camps Invite (2022)
- MLB / USA Baseball All-American High School National Team (2023)
- MLB / USA Baseball Player Development Pipeline Invite (2023)
- 2023 Area Codes Games Upperclass participant (Athletics)
- Perfect Game All-American (2023)
- Baseball America All-American (2024)
- Rawlings All-American first team (2024)
- Baseball America 2024 Top 10 Freshman to Campus
- Ranked the No. 2 shortstop in California (fourth overall in state) and seventh-best high school shortstop in the nation (No. 24 overall player) according to Perfect Game
- Played with Alpha Prime Baseball
Personal
- Son of Celeste and Steven Bates
- Has one sibling, Parker
- Grandfather, Jim Bates, played football at Cal
- Born at Stanford Hospital and grew up wanting to be an athlete at Stanford